Hi, On 07/03/2012 11:32 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
If that's the case, I'd like to suggest enabling the ConfirmAccount extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount - which can be configured to ask users for a username & email address, and their bio/reasons for wanting to have an account. The request is then added to a moderation queue, and anyone who is in the Bureaucrat role can approve the account creation request.
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I'm not sure the current system fits in with your description, though - - there is a moment where it could be public or private. Under the current system, the best place to ask for a wiki account is IRC or the arch@ mailing list, since you'll get a fast response and it's quite public.
You also need to know that asking in the IRC channel or on arch@ is the suggested path to follow (not mentioned in the page I saw). It just said "ask somene" for me.
I presume the ConfirmAccount has a public queue that only Bureaucrat's can resolve?
I believe that's how it works.
That makes it public, but now we have a greater restriction on who can confirm accounts. Right now, anyone with an account can confirm, but under ConfirmAccount we'll have to designate and cultivate Bureaucrats, yes?
One way we could handle that and spread the policing load would be to create a different role (Moderator, say) and add everyone to that by default, and modify the extension to check that role rather than Bureaucrats for authorisations. This looks like a config option for ConfirmAccount: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ConfirmAccount/Co... (line 106-110). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62